Wardrobe.



Patented Maz'. 5,

S. W. BONSALL.

WARDROBE.

APPLoATIQH FILED Armee, 1910. Mmmm mm1?, 1911` i Leiaaia.

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SEYMOUR W. BONSALL, F NEW YORK, N. Y. l

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` To all whom t may concern.'

, Be it known that I, SEYMOUR W. BoNsALL, 'a citizen' of the Unit-ed States, residingl in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Nardrobes, of which the following is a specification. My presentinvention has relationy to an improved device for the protection and pres- 1i0 ervation of gari'ne'nts and thelike, and the principal object of the' inventionis the provision ofmeans whereby such articles may be safely suspended vand packed in such a manner as to make all lreadily available for inspect-ion', while any one may be rei'noved `or replaced without disturbing the arrangement of the adjacent articles.

`While my invention is particularly useful in wardrobe trunks and is herein described and. shown in that connection, I do not limit myself to this limited application. By use of my device, garments which are safely folded, suspended and packed in a wardrobe or trunk may be instantly separated and drawn forward out of the wardrobe, so as to make each and all conveniently accessible and visible from' all sides. At the Sametime those garments which are nearest the front of the wardrobe or other container i may, if desired, separated and brought y forward wit-hout moving any garments behind them. v i My invention is shown in one illustrative form applied to trunks in lthe accompany l ing drawings, wherein'- y Figure 1 is a. front view of the upper end j of an open wardrobe trunk and Fig. 2 is a a horizontal section on,l the plane 2,2 in Fig. 1.

`The casingor container wherein the garments or similar articles are to be suspended is indicated at 10, the remainder of the trunk forming a. cover being shown at 11, hinged to the container 10, as at l2. l 4 i My improvement. comprises a carrier 13,

hinged within and on one side of the conj tainer 10, which carrier supports aseries of hangers 14, each of whichis provided with a pivotal or hinged connection to the carrier. These .hangers extend normally across the iii container 10 as shown in Fig. 1. While a ,i variety of stylesof hanger might be einl `ployed in this connection, I prefer to use il `the form of hanger and attachment thereof 5",sliown in my Letters Patent No. 'F24-,427,

. Ydated Anril 7th, 1903. These are supported Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed April 28, 191i), SeralNo. 558,186,

Patented War. 5, 1912. Renewed November 17, 1911. Serial No. 660,911;

individually by hinged brackets l5 made easily removable kfrom the rail l() along which said brackets are ada pted to slide,V

relieving the carrier of a part of the weight,

of the garments. It will be seen that, with the hangers in this' normal position, the hinged carrier 13 is prevented from leaving the side of the container 10, against which said carrier normally rests. If, however, the group of parallel hangers is di'awn forward, by turning them on their pivots, the carrier .can then be drawn .forward around its hinge 18, into the position shown in Fig. 2.

For greater strength andsecnrity I prefer to provide the outer end of the carrier 13 with means for supporting the saine adapted to slide along a suitable guideway placed above the carrier. For this purpose I- provide a guideway fixed to the under side of the top of the container 10, and I prefer for this i'iurpose the construction shown in the dra'wings. Ilere there is shown a curved metal plate 19, fixed to the top of the container by the liange 20 and bolts 211 This plate is so bent as to a tl`ord a shelf 22 along which there slides a projection 23 atached to the outer end of the carrier 13. It will thus be seen that the shelf is inade to su'iport'the outer end of the carrier 18 Vin all positions, thus insuring solidity and strength of the device in all positions.

As shown rin Fig. 2, when the carrier 13 s drawn forward', and the hangerse 14 are- Ispread apart upon their individual hinges, every garment can be inspected on both sides without removal from the hangers,` and any one may be removedor replaced (either with or without its hanger) without interfering in any manner with the adjacent garments. At the saine time when the garments `4are to be 1packed inthe wardrobe or trunk, they occupy a minimum ot' room, and the folds of each are preserved by contact with the garments on each side. Any ,convenient means may be used for confining the garments when packed, if desired. 1Such means are well known in this art and require no illustration or further mention here.

Various changes can be made in this deyiee Without depart-ing fom the spirit or curved plate fixed above said carrier and scope of my invention, and I do notlimitarranged toaiiord a sheif, and means fixed n iyseif to the details herein shown and deto said carrier for engaging Qnf'and slidin -Seribed 'along sii-idv shelf, substantially as describe' What I claim is- A Wardrobe for suspending garments and SEYMOUR BONSALL' the' like comprising in combinatin a eon- Witnesses: tainer, 4a, carrier therein hinged near the JULIUS V. MEYERIBIG, frontedge of one side of said\rcontainer, a JOHN HADCOCK. 

